Nature's Museums
Subtitle: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801863264
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Natural history museums; History - General; Museology (General); Natural History; Reference; Architecture; Science/Mathematics; British Isles; Modern - 19th Century; Europe - Great Britain - General; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; History / Europe / General; Architecture, Victorian; General; 19th century; History; Museum architecture
First sentence: In the seventeenth century, collectors gathered natural specimen in a quest for the absurd, curious or monstrous.